ATV Florida Forum

when was the 1st atvflorida group ride? my first one was 10-11-03 at big scrub. i got there at like 8:00am waited around till almost 10:30 and i think the only person there was erb. i couldnt wait around any longer so i took off knocked down 60 miles when i got back i got to meet some of the members. seems like there were 8-12 riders.

jeff

Jeff,
We'll have to check with Corey, but it may have been in the early summer of 2002. At least that was my first group ride. My family was new to ATVing. We showed up at Big Scrub in a Ryder rental truck cause we didn't have a trailer yet. It was hilarious. We met Liv to Ride, Flat Out and Pauly at that ride. There were a few others, but I haven't heard from them or seen them around in a while. There was probably 15-18 people on that ride. We've been hooked ever since...and haven't had to use a rental truck since then! ;D

Yeah, I remember that ride with GreggT and family.  Remember seeing a post from him stating that he would be renting a ryder truck to drive up there.  I personally thought he was nuts.  The good thing about that was he could be easily spoted pulling into the camp ground.  I wonder what happened to all of those guys from that ride.  Gerry6 and prediter were a couple of the ones that I could remember.  I think that was even before da-mgt-man was wearing diapers  ;D , sorry mike that was the only thing that I could think of.

I thought this site started after the summer of 02 ???

I was there...I had the red raptor...52" wide...broke a tierod end and went home...

Good call...the above noted ride was in 2003. I don't know when the site started. I found it in about March of 2003 and I'm memebr #254 I think.

You are member # 145.  Old Timer  :D

hehe im 150

im 652 :o

Yep! This was the first one.

 Jeff, you had a long white beard and Jays' (GEARMADE) daughter was calling you Santa Clause (wether you knew it or not)

I have no clue what number member I am, all I know is I have been here since April 11, 2003, but just started meeting everyone around January of this year. Defiantely some of the best people I've ever met :)

My first "group ride" was at the Yucapen in November 03. It's a shame that place is shut down.

We've come a long way since that ride Mtg man...that was a great day! And your mom's breakfast still is the highlight of the weekend! And for poetic justice...that's exactly where I took out my Z after it had been ATP'D! It's all pretty much the same...just a few more houses now. We met some good guys that day...Naples raptor, Arod, Hiram, Bumblemoose, Monty. Wish we could do it again!

mike,
you were at that october big scrub ride, thats where we met the 1st time. i looked you up after i got back from riding.

jeff

I couldn't remember if I was there or not.

Ok then, My first group ride was in October at Big Scrub and my 2nd one was at the Yucapen.  ;D

right, i didnt make it to that yucapen ride but i remember the thread, it was a lively one, very emotional. my next ride with this group was the january 3rd ride this year, at scrub where we had to take evasionary maneuvers to avoid trouble.

jeff

lol.... Yep, I remeber that one. Talk about adreneline rush. :o

This is the point where I seperated myself from the group, and decided to meet everyone back at Big Scrub. ;) ;D

1st group ride i can recall is when we all went to the bombing range.

what was funny is me and mike weren't doing anything wrong but when we saw the terror in the eyes of the group heading for us at 50-60mph we hauled azz too. we didnt want to be found guilty by association. the whole group didnt stop for about 7 miles. i added that trail we took to my route south its totally legal and not a bad trail.

jeff

speaking of good ole days.......

my first group ride was 4/24/2004 with Jeff(jjamesbar) and a friend of his from Georgia and a guy who I cannot remember his name right now, but he was riding a Blaster that broke down about halfway from Big Scrub to the 88 store,,,,repairs were tried on the trail and didn't work, then Jeff hooked up a tow rope and towed him to the 88 store and filled up on fuel so we could make it to the cabin in Salt Springs,,,,,we dropped off the quad then he rode on the back of Jeff's quad all the way back to Big Scrub to get his truck and get his quad home.

From the cabin in Salt Springs to Big scrub is about a 15 mile straight shot,,,but this was all on trails so add another 3-4 miles to that.

I'd say in all that day we covered about 50 miles by 3pm and were not even running hard.

I miss them days.

Id@

Nathan if i am not mistaken, the fellow who broke down on the blaster was Bman (brian)

-Curtis-

well we all should plan another one for the summer

that would be cool.

wow!

HOLY sh*t! MIKE! How you been man! I take it you got an email notify. LMAO you still got THUG NASTY!


-Curtis-

Wow!!!!!!!! Talk about the old days. Those were some GOOD times.

this was my first group ride.

you are correct sir,,,,thanks for the jog in memory.

Id@

Hey LakeMary i was wondering where you had been...

Hey Mike what number im I  :dunno.gif I was just looking at my resistration date and it said 2005 my first bike was an 2003. what up here.... Mike HELP ME OUT !!!!

#3510

If I remember correctly a couple of years ago you deleted your account and then rejoined a little while later.

Yup you are right Mike.....That's when I started the Where is Caospop Thread ???

Member Number 49 here :ThumbsUp.gif

823 baby,,,oh yeah.

Id@

#221 here

how can you find out you number?

Hoover your cursor over your name and look at the bottom space bar

I guest that doesnt work on Mac's   thanks

I never deleted the account i just redid it from all caps to lower case. I then lost my spot in line... i must have deleted it then redid it in lower case...   :'( :'( :'(

Holy crap, That is cool. I guess you learn something new everyday.


Ricky, you are #1881

Right click on your screen name go down to properties then you see you postion...

Thanks Mike

# 73 here

Why wait until summer for the next ride????  I know the group has grown and we would all like to meet each other (or maybe not)...jeez, I'm 4436

Yeah you were sukkin wind in10/04 ; remember the 1st corner into the woods ..................  BIG WATERHOLE !!! Jeff , Claude , directing traffic  ;D  ;D Post up the pics .





DR Walum !!

If you plan another group ride do it in the spring or fall. I've been to 3 group sport rides & summer is to freakin hot and dusty. It's still fun meeting eveyone but Blue sink is a lifesever at the end of the day.

that was a bad day for the 400EX,,,,,fresh outta ATP with their special treatment and I go and sink it in a waterhole,,,,,,you know it's bad when you get off of your fancied-up sport quad and the back end floats ;-)

Gotta say though,,,,I got it to the other side and it was spitting water out the exhaust when I finally got it started again and it has run great ever since.

Id@